Pros
- Great coworkers across many departments (the local HR business partner is still one of my favorite people) - My first manager (who also became a mentor and a friend) gave me a massive opportunity and taught me so much. I had zero oil & gas experience when I started at the company as an admin but I wanted to learn and he was a willing/excellent teacher - One of the supervisors in my department was the same. Always willing to take the time to teach or help expand my knowledge base with new projects - Health insurance benefits were excellent - Even the lowest bonus percentage you can receive is still higher than most companies - Great PTO (length varies based on experience) - The facility I worked at was brand new and top of the line
Cons
- The coworkers who were not great, were absolutely terrible - There were multiple instances of people being promoted into supervisor/superintendent roles who truly did not know what they were doing. To top it off, those people also didn’t have the leadership abilities to be in those roles - Cheniere grew incredibly fast. Some of the systems were dated. It wasn’t always clear who was responsible for what or, quite frequently, people who were clearly responsible for something pushed it on to someone else and would get away with it. - Some of the more administrative policies/procedures hadn’t been written. I hit a snag with local HR over something that wasn’t directly my fault or their fault. They needed to have a procedure in place for how to handle this situation and, at the time of my leaving, one hadn’t been written. - Like any company, they will use you as much as you allow them to - Going to do this in two parts because background is required, pt. 1: When I was promoted into this role officially, I had already been performing the job functions for almost two years as an hourly admin. The role was always on the staffing plan, had never been filled, and it was quietly understood by the whole team that it was being held for me (they froze promotions during COVID). Once they were unfrozen, I’m the one who wrote the job description for it - the role was built around me - The kicker, pt. 2: Corporate HR gave me a massive runaround with pay - corp HR pitched it to my managers as a 29% pay increase which sounded great to them. However, corp HR did not include overtime in the calculation so the original offer was 65k as a coordinator, except I’d made 62k as an admin…what. When I rejected the offer, corp HR called me: CHR: the hiring manager has already said he wants you in the position, why’d you reject the offer? Me: because it’s only 3k more than I made as an admin CHR: well it’s a 29% pay increase over your base Me: all of that OT was worked to perform the job because turnarounds are demanding. The extra time required is only going to increase with the promotion CHR: okay well how much do you want? Me: 85k (I also knew the pay scale for the position and this was the halfway amount) (KICKER) CHR: *laughs ironically* well if you’ve already been performing the position for two years, why do you think you deserve a pay increase at all? Me (now infuriated): because my current pay is based off the job responsibilities of an admin, not the responsibilities I actually perform or would perform in this role. Should we have a Webex meeting and compare what I’m currently being paid for vs. what you would be paying me for? CHR: no need. My other line is ringing. I’ll call you later He never called back but I received a second offer via email which was 70k. I was advised by a higher up to take it or corp HR was going to look elsewhere